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		seppel on Oct 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tokyo Stock Exchange Blackout: One Piece of Hardwa... couldn't explain = didn't want to :) But anyway, it also shows that the failover was not properly tested.

rightbyte on Oct 2, 2020 [–]

Or that the fault killing the first on also killed the failover? Like a rampage JIS encoding control character running over the wires.

marcan_42 on Oct 2, 2020 | [–]

It was a memory error. Hardware failure. The failover process is what went majorly wrong here.

It seems they had a press conference with more details in Japanese.

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